The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-09-24

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city, and search revealed the corpse
of a man. 1t was that of Dream
Gulch Davis, and his own hand
closed his strange career.
Persian Womsn's Fondnen for Bathing
The bath takes up a good deal
of the time of all Persian women.
Even the poorest will attend the
Hammam at least once a week.
For the lady the bath is one of the
serious affairs Of life, and takes up
daily from two to four hours of her
time. 1t is something more than
our idea of a bath. The victim is
scraped and rubbed and parboiled.
The soles of the feet are pumiced
until they are soft and tender as
those of a little child. The hair is
thoroughly washed by means OF
hot water and the saponaceous clay
for which Shiraz is celebrated. Then
the attendants mix in a brazen bowl
the aromatic henna with the requis-
ite amount of lemon juice, till a
brown paste Of the consistency of
Cruel is produced, and several hand
fuls of the repulsive-lOOking COM
pound are smeared over the lady's
head. Then the hair, collected in
to a mass, is bound up with cab
bage-leaves. Small quantities of the
dye are smeared over the eyebrows ;
the solcs of the feet, toes, the palms
of the hands and the finger-tips are
also covered with it. And now the
lady has to sit perfectly still for
from one to three hours, till, like a
meerschaum pipe, she colOrs; and
it is exactly the color obtained on
the best specimens of pipes that is
most fashionable among the Per-
sian ladies. Day after day the bath
is thronged with women, each sit
ting perfectly still for the color to
take" But they have their re-
ward, for the henna dies the hair a
beautiful deep warm chesnut; hence
gray hair is unknown among Per-
sian ladies. While the coloring
process has been going on tongues
have been running and a good deal
of scandal has been exchanged.
The female barber, with a pair of
tweezers, has removed every out "
ing hair from the region of the
lady's eyebrows. 1t is the ambition
of every Persian woman that her
eyebrows shall meet, or at least ap-
pear to do so; so attractive are eye
brows that meet that they are called
the "bridge of love- The first care,
then, Of the Persian beauty is with
little pencil of antimony to unite
her eyebrows, and then she pro-
ceeds to make them appear Of un-
natural thickness. Her eyelashes
are penciled, too, in a manner not
unknown to our own country
women. By this time the lady will
have smoked many kalians or water
pipes, she will have partaken of
tea and regaled herself with coffee I;
iced sherbets, too, will not have
been wanting. Her finger-tips,
nails and palms, as we'll as the soles
Of her feet and her toes, have at
tanned a bright chesnut hue which
will last a week. The hair is care
fully washed once more. 1t is sell
dom under a yard long, often much
more, for the Persion woman never
cuts her hair, except in front, per-
haps, when two heavy love-locks
are left on either side Of the face.
The ladies now return home to
their MONDAY breakfasts. After
breakfast there is generally siesta,
and this, in hot country, is almost
a necessity. About 4 o'clock tea
and pipes appear. and then the
lady receives callers or pays visits,
or, perhaps, does little shopping,
or takes the air mounted on her
ambling mule or a donkey OF
snowy whiteness.-Pall Mall Ga
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